Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-10


Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and
Alabama stand in pretty much the
same position. Tho system has been
made odious aud oppressive to the peo-
pie, and public opinion il gradually
sobdifying upon the idea that ii 1t be
Necessary 10 restrict the manufacture
of vbiskey by tax that the revenue
should go 10 the States directly in-
teres.td, and the whole control OF the
question with il. AS before shown,
The Sonth is very generally hostile to the
inteinal-revenue system rs it now exists.
The Virginia convention has now done
what several Virginia Legislatures had
already done demanded the repeal OF
the war measure-rightfully termed IN
famous
The tariff plank is the expression OF
the national Democratic platform In
1894, simpliled and more direct. 1t
declares for the custom house as the
basis OF governmental revenue, an eco-
nomical Administration, and pro-
tectivc and fostering and developing
tariff. This is good enough for Georgia.
Now let us hear from Tennessee.
The Nashville american says
We ask the Democracy of the coun-
try TO look at these resolutions and the
cold reasons for them in the surround
ings All the leading Democrats Of the
State were there including Hon. John
S. Barbour, Hon. John w. Daniel, and
Colonel John Goode.
What did they do? The first and
most important thing, in the ostima-
ton Of the Virginia Democracy, in de-
claring convictions, finds utterdnce in
| q dCmGnd.
| If there ever was "demandS right
eously made on a party this was. We
are glad to see such Democrats as Bar
bour, Daniel, Goode and others walk
to the front and say We dcmaod the
immediate repeal Of the infamous and
odious "inioinsl " revenue system.
Is this infamous Republican measure
to be continued by the Democracy ? If
50, why complain at anything the Re-
publican party has done ? Has any
| Democrat ever been known to favor this
system of spies and informers in time Of
peace, and when the Treasury was full to
Ovellowing, until Henry Watterson
took it up as a means of cutting OF
from the laboringmen the incidental
yes, incidental-protection which col
| letting the revenue from foreigners
gives? Weglory in the manhood OF the
Virginia Democracy when they say
with one voice, without dissenting
vote, We G'CnGnd its Immediate repeal
The Virginia Democracy are of
opinion that they can't carry this in
fanny and the State both. They demand
that this weight shall be taken off. Vir-
ginia is one Of the States that ought to
bc listened 10, because the Democracy
in that State have fight, and hard
one. a foolish or bad platform will
defeat the party.
The reasons given must be noted ::
1t is relic of the war. 1t is not neces-
sary. 1t is oppressive. 1t fosters mo-
nopolies. Ii is obnoxious to the PEG
pies interests.
Shall we say, "Virginia heads the
column? Is it not true ? Has she
not already pointed out the way in
which the national Democracy must
walk if they would next year gain a
glorious, never-ending victory p
"never-ending because it will bury
fcrcyermore the party of malignants
and sectionalists.
The New Orleans Times DCmOcra'
says:
"The Virginia platform is sufficiently
explicit and plain, and will give general
satisfaction save to those who wish TO
deal radically with the tariff The Viz
ginians are good enough Democrats,
but they can see no merit i'll causing a
schism in the party on this question or
in attacking our growing industries"
TIE Times Democrat then quotes
the internal-revenue plank of the Vir-
GINA platform, and, after remarking
that "this is emphatic and explicit
enough" adds:
After getting rid OF this tax, the
AifHliIa democrats MOu4N AlCil WIN
the tariff on a conservative basis and
pretty much on the lines laid down by
the National Convention which nOmi-
mated Cleveland. 1t wants a revenue
raised requisite for the demands Of the
Government. The language OF the
resolution is very close to that OF the
tariff plank on which Mr.. Cleveland
was elected, and with the success then
won the Democracy has no reason to
Ice dissatisfied with the official declara-
ton o. its tariff views"
There is indeed lesson in this to all
with whose individual opinions the
Roanoke platform does not exactly CO.
incide. If the spirit OF the Times
Democrats article shall animate the
Virginia Democracy, as We believe it
will, then will It prove true, as the
Macon Iclcgroph declares in the
paragraph quoted above, that Virginia
has set the pace for the South in the
next presidential campaign, and that
as Virginia goes so will go the national
Democratic party.